skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
NASA Takes Six Advanced Tech Concepts to Phase II
the world needs more Christopher Domas talks, he is inspirational.
New particle at last Physicists detect the first "glueball"
What does the average human do every day?
I cannot even see the thing because of error - Cannot load page. Too many redirects (more than 20). What’s up?
To Make Cars Safer, Connect Them to Everything
I really hope we find out some details here.
Since it supports any HTML tag, it is irrelevant.

Mandate markdown and MTAs and marketing departments will send you markdown only made of pure HTML.
Apple mulling potential partnership with Rivian
How to Build a Suburb (1995)
It would be great to have the discussion open for people with actual knowledge and experience of the issues.

To keep the discussion interesting, please do not assume or guess, thanks!
Of course, but ask Obama if that guarantees anything as far as SCOTUS goes.
Caniwebview.com – Like Caniuse but for Webviews
Why does anyone ever give Google money for anything at this point?
> I understand if you are manager/owner you might be running comms via email. But internally all of that went to slack for good reason - lack of history is a feature, not a bug.

I am neither manager nor owner. Just another 1x engineer. 75% of my comms run over email. 25% over Jabber.

Not every software company uses Slack!
Don’t advertise California prices in Oregon?

I was referring to city/county taxes, not state taxes. Tor example, a local city to me in the US had a total of 14% sales tax, while outside the city was 10%.

Anyway, a sale’s motivation is to move products off the shelf and make room for more profitable products; they’re already losing money.
I disagree with you on the UK running according to a "constitution". It definitely has none.

It runs ancient law / legal precedence; As example, the current government has used "Henry VIIIth powers" (basically ... sovereign edicts) more than once in the last decade. But the UK body of law doesn't denote anything specifically as "constitutional".

That said, it has a strong (legal) history on somewhat-free speech, more recent libel laws notwithstanding, more recent "hate speech" laws notwithstanding.

Free speech alone though only helps public discourse if there is no attempt to "balance" differing views. Trying that has the opposite effect; instead of pointing out flaws and lies in any argument, the mediator simply "gives equal airtime" to conflicting views. That's the perfect way to polarize - choose whom you're with, and whom you're against. Political commentary is rather important, if it's missing, people miss out.

Don't _think_ about what they say. Don't look for common ground. Don't look for lunacies in any side. Just ... pick, ok ? We've shown you both, so ...
If your C code end up like that, yes:

```
#include <stdio.h>

int main() {
/* my software in ASM */
__asm__ ( [...<insert your assembly code lines here>...] );

return 0 ;

}
```

And you are pretty sure this is pretty much what would happen with markdown in emails if it ended up being mandatory. You would end up with emails entirely made of html.
Is it possible now to sign up using TOR? It didn’t work a few years ago when I tried and never visited this website ever again.
Switched to proton, never looked back
> but I think it's still wrong to use "cheap" to refer to the typefaces available for the Caxton and KJV Bibles. I suspect they were quite expensive.

I don't think this argument quite works; something can be stunningly expensive, in an absolute sense, at the same time that it's the shoddy low-price option people choose for budget reasons.
Show HN: Sustainable climate compensation plans for individuals and companies
Hello everyone!

I would like to share an environmental project I am working on.

It’s a web application for sustainable climate compensation plans, which are based on ecosystem restoration projects, and also includes impact tracking and anti-greenwashing measures.

The idea came up while browsing reddit, where one redditor shared their environmental impact tracking spreadsheet, but wasn’t sure how to properly include the compensation from recently bought trees. The organization from which they bought those trees didn’t provide reliable information on their impact and how it is spread in time, so I started researching this topic more and found out, that there are many services which either overestimate their impact or even use creative carbon accounting.

I know that everything now is a subscription, and in most cases it isn’t good for customers, but it is easier to stick with a subscription to gradually build towards tangible environmental impact, as it requires proper scale, therefore time and/or resources. The upside of planting trees is, that their impact doesn’t disappear after canceling a subscription, so you don’t lose it.

We plan to restore temperate broadleaf woodland and forest ecosystems, mainly on agriculturally degraded and unproductive land. As soon as we confirm the details with our potential regional partners, we will add more information how it works to our website, including where, how, and with whom we’ll do the fieldworks.

The app wouldn’t be possible without immense help from a programmer and support from an incubation program. We have many ideas how we can improve it, but will appreciate your feedback!
There are different images. One is called "business versions". This one contains 10 Pro.

Just in case the installer detects the home key in the bios and doesn't offer the selection menu:

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-server/get-started...
Looks like, today, in Ireland (prices elsewhere in Europe will likely vary slightly, but should be mostly similar), a Tesla Model 3 starts at 39k after grants and relief, while an Audi Q4 e-tron starts at 41.5k. "Way more expensive" is probably pushing it. The closely related VW id.4 starts at 39k (the id.3, which is really a more direct competitor, at 35k).
“Leaving things out” is sometimes one of cinema's greatest strengths.

I’ll never forget a documentary I saw on martial arts film editors. They will deliberately cut the very frame where a fist would touch an actor's face. And not at all because it was badly choreographed. Instead, they realized that the strongest punch is the one you never see. It’s the one you complete with your imagination. And there’s no competing with that.

Likewise, leaving some of the plot to be inferred by the audience is a powerful narrative mechanism.
Do you mean Uint8Array etc and ArrayBuffer and so on? Or something else?
MicroPython allows to do even more than that, and is fantastic and I wish it was part of standard Python as well. Using a decorator you can write functions in Viper, a subset of Python that has pointers to bytearrays() and only fast integer types that have a behavior similar to C (fixed size, they wrap around and so forth). It's a very nice way to speedup things 10 or 100x without resorting to C extensions.
Dotfiles: Unofficial Guide to Dotfiles on GitHub
I'd love to see the conclusions that lead to these shutdowns.
Google is a huge company with ~180,000 employees. Sometimes people do sensible things.
I didn't realize RISC-V already has so many extensions. I just briefly looked over them and apparently they are often just small parts which get grouped up into larger extensions, but I hope the extension "mess" won't kill risc-v in the end.
Still very excited about RISC-V progress
Hmm, no mention of JavaScript or remote resources, nor any of the Linux clients.
Direct link to PDF:

* http://archive.wilsonquarterly.com/sites/default/files/artic...
> It’s one thing to market to adults, but targeting teens is just plain wrong.

Who do you think the target audience of Meta, Google, Apple, Bytedance and Microsoft is ?
I recommend reading https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/:visited

> For privacy reasons, the styles that can be modified using this selector are very limited
More like their time and energy. Provisionally free, but not worth it in the end. Arguably Google not charging actual end users for services up front is the root of this problem.
Discussion from 2 days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40262082
>> You appear to have fallen victim to a similar attempt at conflation, Zionism is a movement to fulfill the right for Jewish self-determination in their native land of thousands of years.

That doesn't make sense. I am Greek and we lost our ancestral lands in Asia Minor when we were slaughtered and expelled from them by the modern Turkish nation [1]. The same thing happened to the Armenians, Cappadocian Christians and Assyrian Christians, also.

And yet it is not anti-hellenic, or anti-christian, or anti-anything to deny that all those people and the Greeks have a right to return to their ancestral lands, where Turkish people now live. Resisting irredentist nationalism is not racist.

__________________________

[1] The Jewish are not the only people who were kicked out of the land they lived in for thousands of years, lost their greatest city and had their greatest temple turned into a mosque: this also happened to the Greeks: Asia Minor, Constantinoupolis and Agia Sophia, were Greek for thousands of years and now they belong to the Turkish nation. If the Greeks and every other ethnic and religious group claimed their "right to self-determination in their native land of thousand years", there would be bloodshed and war without end.

Greek genocide:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greek_genocide

Armenian genocide:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armenian_genocide

Assyrian genocide:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sayfo

Pontic Greek genocide:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pontic_Greek_genocide

About the Cappadocian Greeks:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cappadocian_Greeks
do any email clients support js?
You presume that a) all governments are bad, b) law is controlled by these governments and c) we only have to hide from governments.

Neither are absolutely true.

I mostly trust my (western european) government to not fuck me over when I am abiding the laws. Which I mightn't always do. I mostly trust them to be proportional: e.g. not beat me up or throw me in prison for smoking a spliff or drinking in public.

A court order is handled by courts. Which, at least in most European countries, is independent. This is shifting in some countries, but that's a rather big deal. "Cut of from EU benefits" big.
Regardless what police or governments want, they have to abide by laws. And courts decisions on allowing access to my internet usage.

While in many countries governments are truly life threatening to minorities, that's not the only privacy concern. I have much more to "fear" from my ISP selling out, my datacenter getting bought by a FAANG or just those FAANGs spying on my every move.

What I'm trying to say is: you are spreading FUD by inventing some absolutisms that are really a spectrum for most common VPN users.

Also: VPNs have always known to be detrimental to your security when browsing "really" secure: through TOR.
Tale of 2 Chinas: Our tech governance isn't perfect, but we still get to say no
The fact that any super-smart person can be 'hacked' is nothing new.

It's no different than how smart human beings can still be brainwashed/indoctrinated/programmed into believing anything (whether by 'the government' or malicious actors or manipulative sociopaths).
> Proton Mail is in the title because it's where they went first, but the actual identification (real name, phone number etc.) seems to come from Apple on request for info related to the address.

Irrelevant to the point. Proton Mail provided authorities with user data.
Interesting! Incidentally, what's a bent asker?
> A true in theory best performance would surely be in the multiple Gigabyte per second range (if simdjson's performance is taken as a goal)

I don't think it makes any sense for the parser for a completely different and much simpler format to be "taken as a goal".
> And on Whatsapp, I want to talk to people on Whatsapp directly, without a chatbot in the middle.

They're doing this with Skype too. It annoys me. I have a list of business contacts, and that's all I use it for. My friends are elsewhere. I don't want to talk about the weather or politics. I have specific people to talk or chat with for specific topics.

Microsoft, you are already trying to be my friend via Bing and whatever that is built right into Windows 11 already.

Rant finished. I guess I understand why they do that. If I only used Skype, and no other Microsoft products, how else would I discover all the wonderful experiences I could have with an LLM?

And change is inevitable, and how much money do I give Microsoft for this particular service to stay the same, etc., etc., etc..
I don't think ultimate expansion vs contraction has been conclusively proven one way or another, but if the universe is expanding and destined to end in "heat death", I'm curious what % of matter in the Milky Way would be predicted to wind up in a black hole. I see one estimate[0] of 0.1% of "all stars"/"all matter in the universe" will end up in a black hole, but obviously these estimates are subject to revision over time, and I'm more curious about our solar system specifically, which may be subject to special conditions that increase the likelihood of ending up in a black hole.

Nonetheless, I suspect you are greatly overestimating the likelihood of human matter falling into a black hole.

0: https://www.forbes.com/sites/startswithabang/2019/07/02/no-b...
> There is a wide range of types of design docs, and none of them are useful.

I write them mainly as a tool to get visibility with superiors. I try to make them as fancy as possible to to make them think i am "leadership material". I've been feeding them to chatgpt to rewrite them in fancy language.
auto foo2 = foo0; // foo0's ownership is not transfered to foo2

was this supposed to say "now transferred"?
> From the article, it appears the big sadness for the author was he wrote back and said he was happy to work with Kubrick to discuss getting it to where he was more comfortable with it, Kubrick never responded, and then sent lawyers. That's all that's rough for the writer, here.

Very. Who knows how many hours of sweat he poured into it, only to get it shelved when it was done.

This, IMHO, is a good reason to recommend everyone read The Mom Test at some point in their adult life.

What probably happened was that the author got the initial agreement from Kubric by being so persistent that Kubric agreed just to make them go away. A lukewarm reception from someone is just their polite way of saying "no".
Meat pies, pasties, chico rolls, fish&chips, and if you're really posh, kangaroo-tail soup.

Thats what this sandgroper remembers of culinary delights of Perth .. good to know there's more native diversity there these days.

EDIT: kind of surprised Cicerillo's seafood trays aren't on the list too ..
Their most reused rocket is now 20 launches, and was used in a Galileo launch in an expendable configuration.

https://www.space.com/spacex-galileo-l12-falcon-9-launch
Intuit's 'head of employee listening' talks about the science of worker feedback
Google Maps, but for IP adresses?
Dupes:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40273141

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39384093
The "attack" is just a clever use of DHCP option 121. It's a valid attack against a badly broken client configuration. Just replacing the default route (or overwriting it with two /1 routes) and adding a host route to the VPN endpoint is not secure. To properly isolate the encapsulated traffic from the underlaying network you have to use proper policy based routing (e.g. Linux network namespaces, FreeBSD vnet, OpenBSD rdomains). Attempting to cobble together something with packet filters and a userspace "kill switch" is broken by design and just shows how little the common VPN hosters understand or care about their supposed core competency. Good old enumerating badness strikes again.
There's no indication that it's a yet-to-be-introduced requirement that will block 100+ countries including the user's own - and a footnote in the sidebar would not be the appropriate place for that.

If it's being sold in their country, works for their friends, and works for months after they purchased it - I think most people won't have reason to think twice about it (if they noticed it in the first place), or just be given the impression that the account is something handled automatically in the background.

Even if the notice clearly and correctly stated "We're taking payment from people in your country, but will prevent it being played in a few months", I think people are right to protest arbitrary enshittification of purchased products.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40282996
For years there were patches distributed for pine (or was it qmail?) back when it had a proprietary license, it kind of reminds me of that.
But that's the point,

rent === mobility

own === 10x less so

Sure. It's nice to want roots, have a home, etc. But given how the financial system works - and the economic and sociopolitical systems that sit on top of it - an RV might be the smartest way to go.

Sure there's always the American Dream narrative but (leadership) actions speak louder than words. Seeing Santa Claus or the Easter Bunny is 100x more likely than the now mythical Anerican Dream.
Is your personal website a business?
Most people have better things to do with their time than maintain mental lists of which technology companies have better and worse track records for product maintenance and support.
Ben Tasker is the author of the post
but no, we can't just write plain text, we have to put our whole website inside an email
I pay for ad-free YouTube. I also pay for a ton of extra storage in Google drive.

I find the constantly closing down and shifting of services to be a slight annoyance but not really too impactful in my personal usage. For example, moving Google podcasts and YouTube music into YouTube has been a pretty sad degradation. But not really a deal breaker for me.

What I would never ever do is build a business on top of Google. They seem so cavalier about pulling the rug out from under you. I can only imagine if you have for example services running in Google cloud, how they would treat you if you were counting on a service that they thought wasn't worth it to maintain anymore. Shutting down apis that people were using like this just seems very on-brand for them to me.
Fastmail for me, but yeah same. I did that a long time ago -- the only thing I use still is search and youtube. The latter of which has no real replacement sadly
I could have been more clear there. I was specifically thinking about data that can identify you, not just data in general.

If I'm the only one in possession with data I don't really consider it data collection at all, at least in the context of privacy and anonymity. Other than that I agree with your clarifications here though.
I guess that opens a whole different can of worms in the discussion, because I actually think that supports my point, that it sounds like a good idea but doesn't actually accomplish anything positive. All it ends up doing is hamstringing the companies that do want to do things the right way, because they can't compete with the companies who are snubbing all the rules anyway.

Anyone who was working at Coinbase during the rise of Binance or FTX can tell you everybody knew they were playing outside the rules. Once you know how hard it is to do things right, it's easy to see when some upstart flies in and starts gobbling up market share that they're cutting corners.

It took 7 years for Binance and CZ to get fined like they finally did. FTX might even still be operating if SBF hadn't panicked and filed for bankruptcy. Riding those guys out was one of Coinbase's major challenges, and competitors who didn't have established market share and teams couldn't even effectively enter the market and compete with those players.

Regulation often sounds like a good idea to honest people, but it doesn't account for the reality that many people don't care at all about playing by anybody else's rules.
Also very enjoyable, Emilio D'Alessandro’s book Stanley Kubrick and Me
Uh... the binaries are here dude

https://dl.t2sde.org/binary/2024/
Pyspread – Pythonic Spreadsheet
Good and Bad Ideas
I think the "techies" that you are referring to just see the issues with html email that the non-techies don't notice. Some of course just want things to be more like the 80-column monochrome that you mention, but for most it's not that extreme.

I think HTML is way too complicated for email, and it would have been much better if they'd standardised on a version of markdown.

That ship has sailed though, so we're stuck between using HTML or plain text.
You may also enjoy a modern-ish take on this from Zoro's Field: My Life in the Appalachian Woods.
From TFA:

> If you treat the usage of tools as "subjects of learning" and deliberately memorize them, it can be done. Such things are usually much lighter and smaller in volume than what is normally seriously treated as subjects of learning, which is why they are not treated as subjects of learning. So if you try to master them deliberately, it's easy to do.

I strongly disagree. Cognitive load is a thing that has different impact on individual people. Also, rote memorizing mental models, sometimes difficult-to-grasp ones due to bugs and poor UX design, is never inherently "easy."

"It's easy" is a fallacy, one that I keep hearing especially from healthy male developers, who I think sometimes lack empathy and awareness that not everyone's brain, cognition, and perception works exactly like their own.
The Mental Game of Poker
The Birth of Parquet
How did you guys land your first finance job?
How did you guys land your first finance job?
Sugar-based catalyst could offer a potential solution for using captured carbon
Seems like they're moving everyone to health connect? it is automatically installed on my Pixel. The UI is very different, doesn't even have a dashboard, I can't see my sleep and any of my data as well only what I shared to other app. Also weirdly when I go to play store, it says installed, but I can't search it on the list of app?

What's with the decision to move to another app anyway? The only thing that they should do is literally nothing.
How often do you have access to bonds that pay higher than a mortgage though? Bonds are much less risky than mortgages, I'd only expect them to pay higher in rare instances when rates changed dramatically and you happened to be in the market at the right time.
I think it's fine for Elon to voice his opinion, even if direct or hurtful.

He should though have a mirror held in front of him in public occasionally. It works for you alright, but have you considered the consequences of everyone else acting the same way ? What actions do you think will derive from creating an agenda of "do as I do or f** you" ?

It's the categorical imperative of ethics. In the sense that a good (ethical) agenda doesn't derive from "eff all others".

Commentary on, and the questioning of other's opinions is as much a necessary part of free speech as is the right to voice your opinions.

I think we need more commentary, and more questions.
Show HN: Know your users and sell more
Hi, this is Jefferson.
I've been involved in the development of a widget for websites for some time now.

However, what initially seemed like a simple idea ended up being more complex than I had imagined. The goal was to complete the MVP in a month, but it ended up taking 5 months to finish. I think this is something common to many developers.

I already appreciate your support.